Word: chute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Something in this countryside suddenly exploded. . . . I flew drowned in a crop of trajectories as golden as stalks of wheat. . . . When a shell burst very near, the explosion rumbled along the plane like rock dropping through a chute...
When the altimeter said 1,500 feet, Jumper Starnes cracked his first chute, passed out for a few seconds as it slowed him down, fast. When he came to, he cracked the second. He landed in a cow pasture south of Chicago. Said he: "I'm certain that the jump is the longest delayed fall ever made in the U.S. and perhaps in the world." No man from Mars gave...
...rescued by a Navy pilot who flew close enough to the other plane to take Osipoff into the cockpit. On receiving Osipoff's letter above, TIME unable to understand why, if he had had a knife, he could not have cut himself loose and descended with his emergency chute, wired him for enlightenment. Lieut. Osipoff replied as follows...
NAVY DEPARTMENT PROHIBITS COMPLETE DETAILS HOWEVER CAN SAY THIS: TWO PARACHUTES WERE USED ACCORDING TO DOCTRINE. ON TAKING OFF WITH THE FORWARD IMPETUS OF TRANSPORT PLANE [WHEN THE FOULING OCCURRED] EMERGENCY PARACHUTE BROKE LOOSE FROM . . . HARNESS AND STREAMED OUT THE EXTENT OF SHROUD LINE; SILK OF THE CHUTE REMAINED INTACT. I PULLED IN THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER...
...stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...